Want to help DMD bugfixing? Write a simple utility.

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Regan Heath" <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote in message 
news:op.vswbv8qj54xghj at puck.auriga.bhead.co.uk...
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:16:02 -0000, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 
> wrote:
>> There are tasks for which you need to be able to lex and parse D code. 
>> To 100% correctly remove unit tests would be one such task.
>
> Is that last bit true?  You definitely need to be able to lex it, but 
> instead of actually parsing it you just count { and } and remove 
> 'unittest' plus { plus } plus everything in between right?
>

No, to do it 100% reliably, you do need lexing/parsing, and also the 
semantics stage. Example:

string makeATest(string str)
{
    return "unit"~"test { "~str~" }";
}
mixin(makeATest(q{
    // Do tests
}));